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   Titus
   

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   Approaching 600 dead this year so far.

   With any luck, might become 601 if all state security protection officers stay at home while Trump gives his State of the Union speech.

   Posted 9 months ago #

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   beau-jolly
   

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   It's the MacDonalds that'll kill him.

   Posted 9 months ago #

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   Midfield Diamond
   

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   It's the MacDonalds that'll kill him.

   As a caption I saw on on Twitter said, 'What happens if you let a 10-year old order the food for their own birthday party'

   

   Posted 9 months ago #

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   Dick Everyman
   

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   With 2,896 gun deaths, including 61 mass shootings, in the USA in the last two and a half months NZ has still got a lot of catching up to do...

   https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

   Posted 7 months ago #

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   Newsdesk
   

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   STOP PRESS

   Latest available statistics for 2019 are 8,721 dead, 250 of which from mass shootings.

   However, this does not take into account those currently in surgery in El Paso.

   Posted 2 months ago #

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   Sinnick
   

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   They're on target to beat 2018 - 14,769 deaths and 340 from mass shootings

   The Texas Attorney General said "The best way [to be safe] is to be prepared to defend yourself"

   Presumably, by buying guns from Walmart

   Posted 2 months ago #

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   Newsdesk
   

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   They're on target to beat 2018

   Someone in Dayton, Ohio, is trying to beat the record as I write.

   Posted 2 months ago #

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   Midfield Diamond
   

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   And, as usual, the mass killings (understandably) make the headlines but they are mere blips on the charts of US gun deaths. 8837 now, well over 100 more dead people since Newsdesk's post two days ago.

   Posted 2 months ago #

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   Midfield Diamond
   

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   Another mass killing at the weekend and another set of headlines, conveniently ignoring over 1150 other people killed by guns in the four weeks since El Paso and Dayton. Yes, really. Now over 10,000 gun deaths in 2019 so far.

   Posted 1 month ago #

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    Sir Lupus
    

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    That is an impressive stat MD. Or depressive perhaps. Shows how the news attention to sensational events can miss the really big story happening every day.

    I was wondering what the score was, having had a soft spot for this ghoulish game ever since I won the prediction competition (oops did I mention that I won? silly old me!)

    But now I wish I didn't know...

    Posted 1 month ago #

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